From Wang Bochao's angry killing of the ram to the copper to build weapons, to the raid on the city to sweep the big households to the emergency eastward expedition to escape, it took more than 20 days, at this time to the east is catching up with the looting of the summer harvest fruits, the most important food of the anti-army has fun, but the Great Song Dynasty has suffered, if the Liukou like Tian Hu entrenched in a place to cut the land to build against the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty may not be much of a threat, can be swept from west to east along the way, not only along the way the government and large households suffered a catastrophe, the loss of summer tax money and grain that should belong to the imperial court is amazing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

What can make Emperor Zhao Ji so frightened that he peed his pants on the spot in front of the prime ministers, but he didn't care about it, naturally he wouldn't just be afraid of the Halal Mountain Liukou.

Prior to this, the pirates that the imperial court was planning to exterminate suddenly began to loot on a large scale in Jiangnan, and their power and destructive power were several times more terrifying than that of the Halal Mountain Rogue.

Jiangnan was the most important supplier of money and grain in the Great Song Dynasty, and its importance to the imperial court can be imagined. Pirates must not be allowed to wantonly embezzle the interests of Jiangnan and directly shake the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty.

At this juncture, the Great Song Dynasty also showed a rare efficiency since the founding of the country.

Gao Yu, the third lieutenant and palace marshal, has already led an army of 300,000 forbidden troops to urgently go out, and the general of Zhenguo first led 100,000 forbidden troops to the south of the Yangtze River to stop the pirates.

Zhao Ji didn't know that his most trusted Gao Yu led the army to leave the capital, but he didn't race against time to chase down the pirates raging along the coast for the first time, but he had another clever plan for fear of war, and soon after leaving the capital, he led the army to the southwest to kill, and lined up the army to sweep the many wealthy and powerful families who smuggled and made a fortune in the Jianghuai River, and in this way raised the food and salary needed by the army to make a windfall for themselves, but reported the merit of killing thieves, and indeed solved the big problem in time for the Tokyo court, which was short of money and food, and Cai Jing and others participated in the conspiracy and supported Gao Yu to conceal his behavior.

Gao Yu did this, from Tokyo to Huaixi and then swept to the East China Sea, in the Jianghuai River turned a large circle of thousands of miles, the army is on foot to loot and sweep around, the delay is big, and when they arrive at the coast near the Yangtze River to seriously pursue the pirates, the pirates have already robbed the south and entered Shandong. Gao Yu was secretly happy, and waved his army to sweep Shandong in the name of pursuit.

At this time, the height of summer is coming, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter.

The forbidden army was already exhausted from fighting for thousands of miles, and even if there was the excitement of looting, it could not be energetic, and it was afraid of war from top to bottom, and the march was becoming slower and slower, pulling pirates far away.

Emperor Zhao Ji got the victory of Gao Taiwei to pursue the pirates, and the results were continuous, and the good news was endless.

The summer grain that Gao Yujun handed over to Tokyo and stole from the Jianghuai Haoqiang family was much more than the grain levy that the imperial court was collecting. The land of the Great Song Dynasty, especially the excellent land, is mostly in the hands of large and powerful families, and most of these people do not have to pay taxes or have connections to evade taxes.

Zhao Ji was very satisfied with the loyal and capable Gao Aiqing, but the 400,000 Beijing troops had already been transferred out, and suddenly there was a strong rogue in the Halal Mountain, how could Zhao Ji not be frightened.

He was deeply afraid that this gang of rogues was with pirates, it was the pirates who had premeditated, and the truth of the mine incident was deceived by Bai Shizhong's important ministers, so he took it for granted that Zhou Chuan and others had already secretly surrendered to the pirates, and only after adjusting did they reveal the opportunity to take advantage of the incident, he was extremely resentful of Zhou Chuan's pseudo-good and loyal ministers and extremely frightened, but he didn't expect that it was his important prime minister who was causing trouble.

Urgently hold a court meeting and ask the ministers what to do?

What else can I do?

Of course, it is necessary to quickly send troops to stop and suppress this gangster.

The ridiculous thing is that just like when the Jin army called in history, the ministers all enthusiastically expressed their high opinions, their tongues were like springs, their writing was brilliant, and they were righteous and strict, you have your opinions, advocating that the emperor should do this, he had his opinions, and strongly asked the emperor to do so, some advocated a severe crackdown, and some advocated suppressing and subduing people's hearts.

Don't treat this as a novel, joking, slandering and ridiculing Song Guan.

If you are qualified to attend this and that meeting regularly, you will see that the meeting is often strangely out of shape.

Discussing and resolving issues is not the focus of the meeting, and no one even really cares, that's just an excuse.

The focus of the heated controversy is the struggle for money and power, the so-called gang struggle with different ideas and views, the contest and compromise of the interests of various forces, and the show of those with big power and big mouths...... It is normal for the more urgent and important the issue, the more intense the debate, but it is common to take the opportunity to force the opponent to concede power and profit, and the fundamental purpose of the meeting, the urgent problem to be solved, is finally generalized.

This is a common problem in politics.

Serious politics is often just a power game and a personal show. The same is true of the so-called democratic parliaments in Europe and the United States, and even more absurd and bizarre things often happen.

This situation fell in front of Emperor Zhao Ji, which could only make the flower and bird emperor accustomed to it, not strange, but he was depressed and more anxious.

The ministers were right.

Of course, it is high-sounding and reasonable.

When the emperor was afraid and angry, when the courtiers dared to talk nonsense and clumsily showed shameless selfishness, they were looking for their own death.

Is it a fool to really be an emperor?

The problem is that whether it is suppressed or appeased, it is necessary to use soldiers, and the focus is on how to use soldiers? Which soldiers, to be exact?

The soldiers of the state capitals around Liukou don't need to be considered.

As soon as the defenders of the city are broken, just look at the emergency distress folds thrown like snowflakes, you can see how much the civil and military officials of these state capitals are afraid of the Liukou, and they are all looking forward to the Liukou not passing through their own jurisdiction, doing everything possible to avoid the soldiers, and it is too late to find a reasonable excuse to abandon the city and flee.

The inland army is not without an army with a certain combat effectiveness.

The bureaucrats of the imperial court were not blind to the situation of the army in the interior, and they generally knew where the soldiers were available. These vaunted political elites are not without talent.

For example, they knew that among the top ten bandits who had surrendered in the past, there were a few of the current ten knots who were very capable of fighting.

However, the envoys of the ten knots are either far away, or they are too slow to mobilize from all over the country and delay time.

The strongest army that is most sure of suppressing thieves is, of course, to mobilize the Western Army or the Northern Army.

But these two armies were also too far away to catch up.

It is the rogue who wants to be exterminated, not the rebel who can calmly deploy troops to exterminate in one place. The gang was desperately rushing towards the East China Sea, flowing very fast. Don't take your time.

Even if the Western Army and the Northern Army can catch up, they can't be arbitrarily transferred.

The Yanyun area of the Liao State is home to a large number of former Liaodong refugees who lack food and clothing, and they are waiting for the completion of the summer harvest in the northern border area, so they will definitely go south to loot frantically to easily obtain money and grain, and transfer the huge burden of disasters and difficulties in Liaodong and Yanyun to the Song Dynasty.

Marquis of Wencheng, Zhao Gonglian, had already reported this prediction to the imperial court, reminding the northern border to be ready for battle.

The army and people in the north are facing an inevitable bloody conflict, and they are afraid that they will not be able to defend the border and prevent the Liao people from taking advantage of loopholes to attack, so how can they have extra troops to go south to suppress bandits?

The Western Xia side also saw an opportunity, and wanted to take advantage of the good opportunity of Yanyun's refugees to go south to loot and contain the Song army.

The Western Army noticed the signs that the Western Xia army was about to move, and was on strict guard, and did not care about it.

The situation in the border defense of the Great Song Dynasty was grim. When Emperor Zhao Ji was in danger, he remembered that Zhao Gonglian, the first capable person to save the fight, was powerless to chase down the rogues and pirates, even if he had the heart.

Then the only army that can be called up can only be the forbidden army in the capital, which has enough troops and goes north from the capital to Shandong, the distance is very close, and most of them can catch up to block the Liukou who are running east.

In this situation, no one in the ministers of the previous dynasty was a fool and would not understand, but few people mentioned that they should quickly dispatch the Beijing army to the north.

The 800,000 troops in the capital have been urgently transferred away 400,000, 100,000 to guard the south of the Yangtze River, and 300,000 are responsible for chasing and preventing pirates from attacking the capital.

The power of pirates and rogues to break through the city is so terrifying that storming the state capital is as easy as drinking and eating.

The ministers in Tokyo are even more greedy for life and fear of death, accounting for the absolute mainstream. Prime ministers, privy envoys and other dignitaries are even more selfish and sacrifice their lives.

The bureaucrats were as timid as the emperor, unwilling to draw more troops, and guessed the emperor's thoughts. Who is willing to disobey the emperor's wishes, and regardless of his own family's life, he strongly advocates the transfer of the Beijing army.

The Manchu civil and military forces were fiercely arguing.

When the emperor was red-eyed and angry, he directly asked what to do, some people advocated urgently dispatching the army of Wen Chenghou's subordinates who were brave enough to fight Liao Kou to the south to pursue and suppress Liukou and cooperate with Gao Taiwei's army to kill the pirates. The reason is eloquent.

Marquis Wencheng's army can fight well, and it is equipped with a lot of cavalry, so it is absolutely certain that he will defeat the rogue with only a large number of people.

The key is that the halal mountain bandits and pirates are the mortal threat of the Great Song Dynasty, and the imperial court must not let it go, otherwise the losses and impacts caused to the Great Song Dynasty will be too bad and shake the country's foundation. As for the lack of troops in Cangbei, the Liao people have suffered a lot of harm, and it is not very tight.

Cangbei is a remote and desolate land, the land is vast and sparsely populated, nothing matters, how much can be lost no matter how much can be lost? It can't be compared to the losses caused by pirates and rogues.

The extermination of pirates and rogues ashore not only dealt a heavy blow to the pirates, boosted the prestige of the country, stabilized the hearts of the people, but also intercepted the countless money, food and wealth that were stolen.

Speaking of which, it is nothing more than the braided Chao Shi Ning with foreign robbers, not with domestic slaves. The wealth of the Song State can be robbed by the Liao State, but it must not allow the people of the country to live against thieves.

As for whether it is too late for the army under the Marquis of Tiao Wen Cheng to come down from the north and south to suppress the bandits, and whether it is operable, the proposer does not care.

The sinister calculations implied in it are known only to the proposer himself and the forces behind it.

To put it bluntly, at this time of national disaster, these people also first considered infighting, for fear that Zhao Gonglian would not die and the Cangzhao family would not be destroyed when the Liao people went south to loot.

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The ministers provided all kinds of advice, but none of them were reliable, but they couldn't get along.

Cai Jing, Bai Shizhong, Zhang Bangchang and other prime ministers and dignitaries frowned one by one and thought deeply without saying a word.

Zhao Ji was originally an indecisive emperor who was only good at pleasure and playing power, and he was so violently stirred up by the ministers that he became more and more dispossessed, and he couldn't make up his mind at all, so he could only let the ministers go back and think about it again. The court meeting will be held again and then discussed.

After repeated discussions, it dragged on.

All kinds of strange ideas came out more, and the arguments became more and more intense, arguing and arguing in a hurry, and almost fought in the court, which made Zhao Ji more anxious and upset, and he became more and more out of ideas, and four or five days passed in an instant. The Halal Yamaliukou swept through the Daimyofu's precincts.

Beijing Daimyo Mansion is the capital Tokyo to prevent the Liao army from breaking the border pass and driving straight into the first military town, with more than 30,000 soldiers, soldiers and armor with the king Li Cheng, the vanguard Suo Chao and other fierce generals, there is absolutely the power to block the rogue group led by Zhou Chuan Ma Yuan, but Liang Zhongshu, who has both literary talent and martial virtue, did not dare to send a soldier to attack.

He was also frightened by the strong appeal of the pirates and the ability of this rogue to attract people's hearts and break the city, and he was deeply afraid that the Daimyo's Mansion would also be destroyed by civil strife, so he strictly ordered the defenders to hold the Daimyo's Mansion and have to take a step out of the city, and let the Liukou army sweep the big households in the county under his jurisdiction.

Ma Yuan and other generals also knew the importance and military strength of the Daimyo's Mansion, and they did not dare to provoke and attack arrogantly for face.

At this time, if you don't hurry up and send troops to chase and suppress, the Liukou will quickly kill and flee to the beach, what Wenchenghou elite unless he can fly over, otherwise the whole bird will not be able to top.

At this juncture, Li Gang, a cannon who had hated the emperor because of his opposition to corruption, was demoted to a living room, and angrily reprimanded the ministers for coming up with blind ideas, advocating that the Beijing army of 100,000 troops should be transferred north to suppress the thieves.

Ouyang Xun, who had been prime ministers in history, and Quan Bangyan, who had just returned to Beijing in a hurry to supervise education, also stood up and strongly advocated the transfer of the Beijing army.

Emperor Zhao Ji also understood that no matter how timid he was and did not agree to the transfer of the forbidden army, all the huge losses caused by the rogue would be completely irreparable.

As soon as he was moved, Cai Jing and Bai Shizhong understood that the emperor's important ministers and important officials were waiting for the emperor to change his mind, and they immediately stood up to help the emperor make a decision.

In doing so, they will not become the first to disobey the emperor's mind, they will not be hated by the emperor afterwards, and they will not have to bear the main responsibility for making up their minds.

If the forbidden army is defeated, the losses are heavy, and the Jingshi is endangered, then the primary responsibility lies with Li Gang and others.

Playing politics is based on prudence.

You will often see that the solution to the problem is not the most effective, but it is the one who has the least responsibility.

The treacherous Cai Jing couldn't help but worry about the consequences of defeat.

After all, the news of the rogue proves that the scourge ability and combat effectiveness of this group of people are not small. It is indeed doubtful whether a forbidden army trained by Gao Yu with military two-five eyes can defeat the Liukou.

Zhao Ji finally made up his mind and ordered the general of the auxiliary country to lead 100,000 forbidden troops to immediately go north to intercept and pursue. He also strictly ordered the remaining forbidden army to strictly guard the capital.

This problem has finally been solved.

The Emperor breathed a sigh of relief.

However, after the auxiliary general who was born in the family of the founding nobles left Beijing with his troops, he did not rush to the north, but played the same game as Gao Yu to sweep and make a fortune and falsely report his military exploits.

He is a vulgar martial artist who is despised by scholars, but he has long mastered political wisdom, and he is deeply afraid that he will not be able to defeat the millions of red-eyed rogues who fled with 100,000 troops.

The consequences of failure cannot be afforded, and it will endanger the rich and prosperous future of the entire family.

Therefore, he could not take the risk of pursuing alone, but while clearing the smuggling of the Great Song Dynasty, he forcibly obtained money and grain and made an explanation to the emperor while marching slowly, and let the Liukou flee to the seaside, he waited for the 300,000 troops of the Gao Yu Department to converge in the north, with enough troops and the certainty of victory, and then the two sides jointly exterminated the Liukou pirates. The actual things he did along the way were similar to those of the rogue.